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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a colossal bummer. As someone who majorly struck out on the lottery last year, I fail to see how this improves the winners and losers situation that's prevailed in past years, other than making it occur on a larger scale.  Some kids stand to win big by having great odds at getting into their top choice, or even one of their top choices, and some kids have awful odds of getting into anything.  [/quote]

Changing the lottery method doesn't change the size of the pie. There are about twice as many people in the lottery as there are seats for the, about half of the people don't get into any of their choices. The only way to keep that from happening is to have more seats.

The advantage of the common lottery is that everybody finds out sooner.[/quote]

That is definitely true--the lottery can't in and of itself make more seats appear. And you do hear earlier.

However, it is also true that every year, there are schools that have PK3 and PK4 seats available. So there are definitely more seats than people who take them. The difference is that you might not be willing to go to the schools where the seats are available. (My IB usually has 1-2 PK3 spots available as of the start of the school year. We are EOTP but in NW.)[/quote]

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